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Meaning of "thingness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THINGNESS

thingness  [ˈθɪŋnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THINGNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Thingness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES THINGNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of thingness in the English dictionary

The definition of thingness in the dictionary is the state of being a thing, of being real, of having existence.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH THINGNESS


beingness
ˈbiːɪŋnəs
belongingness
bɪˈlɒŋɪŋnəs
boringness
ˈbɔːrɪŋnəs
cunningness
ˈkʌnɪŋnəs
fittingness
ˈfɪtɪŋnəs
flowingness
ˈfləʊɪŋnəs
interestingness
ˈɪntrəstɪŋnəs
knowingness
ˈnəʊɪŋnəs
lastingness
ˈlɑːstɪŋnəs
lovingness
ˈlʌvɪŋnəs
overweeningness
ˌəʊvəˈwiːnɪŋnəs
pressingness
ˈprɛsɪŋnəs
savingness
ˈseɪvɪŋnəs
shiningness
ˈʃaɪnɪŋnəs
strikingness
ˈstraɪkɪŋnəs
teemingness
ˈtiːmɪŋnəs
temptingness
ˈtemptɪŋnəs
trustingness
ˈtrʌstɪŋnəs
unchangingness
ˌʌnˈtʃeɪndʒɪŋnəs
unfeelingness
ʌnˈfiːlɪŋnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THINGNESS

thing
thing-in-itself
thingamabob
thingamajig
thingamy
thingamybob
thingamyjig
thinghood
thinginess
thingliness
things
thingumabob
thingumajig
thingumbob
thingummy
thingummybob
thingy
think
think again
think better of

WORDS THAT END LIKE THINGNESS

bigness
business
domineeringness
graspingness
nothingness
overbearingness
painstakingness
smugness
snugness
soothingness
sparingness
strongness
swimmingness
thrivingness
trigness
unbecomingness
unerringness
unforgivingness
unwillingness
willingness
wrongness

Synonyms and antonyms of thingness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «thingness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THINGNESS

Find out the translation of thingness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of thingness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «thingness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

物性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cosidad
570 millions of speakers

English

thingness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

thingness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

thingness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

предметность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

coisificação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

thingness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

choséité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesedaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dinglichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

thingness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

thingness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Thingness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thingness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

thingness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोष्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eşyalığını
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cosalità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

thingness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

предметність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

thingness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

thingness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

thingness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

thingness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

thingness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of thingness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THINGNESS»

The term «thingness» is normally little used and occupies the 148.486 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THINGNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «thingness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «thingness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about thingness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THINGNESS»

Discover the use of thingness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to thingness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression: Function ...
Yet it is an instructive tautology, for it reminds us that the identity of craft objects, qua objects, is inherent in their ability to function and their ability to function is inherent in their “thingness” as things, as physical objects. This is not true of works of ...
Howard Risatti, 2009
2
Anthology of Philosophy in Persia: Ismaili Thought in the ...
Sixth Wellspring: One cannot conceive of anythingprior to the First Intellect ( ) How can one conceive of a thingness (shayʾiyyah, or reality) prior to the Intellect when the Intellect is the thingness of all things, and the thingness of all things is the ...
S. H. Nasr, Mehdi Aminrazavi, 2008
3
The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-'Arabi's ...
He is a middle path between the thingness of our fixity and the thingness of our wujud. When He desires to transfer us to the thingness of our wujud, He commands this and we acquire wujud from Him. Then we become manifest in His form in ...
William C. Chittick, 1998
4
Claims of Knowledge: On the Labor of Making Found Worlds
Even Kant's "thing-in-itself" — which is always already there, but does not appear — and his "thing-in-appearance" share one central conceptual property: both are "thingness." What is "thingness"? Again in the classical tradition, we can ...
Lawrence E. Hazelrigg, 1989
5
Civic Republicanism and the Properties of Democracy: A Case ...
simple correlations between placeness and hermeneutics and between thingness and an analytic approach. However, things are not so neat and simple. One of the aims of this chapter is precisely to expose the problems with such a binary ...
Erik J. Olsen, 2006
6
Genesis and Structure of Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Every sensuous determination is universal when it is thus caught in thingness; physics tends to make of it a "free matter" diffused in the universe, only some part of which is localized in a specific body.7 The whiteness and the savoriness of this  ...
Jean Hyppolite, 1979
7
Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No ...
Tiny lights sparkled in the ceiling. “Maybe 'Black Cashmere,'” he responded. “Oak moss, with a blend of citrus aromas. Or better still, 'Seduction,' which has a hint of patchouli.” Thingness While they may influence Romantic buyers' moods and ...
Lee Eisenberg, 2009
8
Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context
After all, the isolated instance of thingness in Ilahiyyat 1.5 - the only instance of shay'iyya that Jolivet cites - hardly constitutes a fully articulated concept in Avicenna's thought. Where else, if anywhere, does shay'iyya appear in Avicenna's works ...
Robert Wisnovsky, 2003
9
The Literary Life of Things: Case Studies in American Fiction
To Heidegger, too, the thingness of the thing is anything but self-evident. In his essay, he demonstrates how various efforts to define the nature of the thing all reach an impasse before long because they adhere to a preconceived reasoning  ...
Babette Barbel Tischleder, 2014
10
The Call of the Holy: Heidegger - Chauvet - Benedict XVI
Insofar as heaven and earth remain 'lingering' in what one pours out they belong to the thingness of the pitcher. The thingness of the thing is therefore to be found in the earth, sky, gods and mortals. In the staying of the fourfold the simple ...
Hal St John Broadbent, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THINGNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term thingness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Why British Designer Jasper Morrison Nixed His Drawing Board 15 …
Morrison titled the exhibition "Thingness," which he says is "the quality that makes a thing good at what it does." (He also has an accompanying monograph out ... «Co.Design, Jun 15»
2
Review: Jasper Morrison's Praise of Normal Things
A glance at “Thingness,” a retrospective of Mr. Morrison's 30-year career, at Le Grand Hornu, a cultural center in a beautifully restored, early 19th-century mining ... «New York Times, May 15»
3
"Les Belges ont un très bon oeil et de très bons goûts"
Thingness, CID (Centre d'innovation et de design au Grand-Hornu), 82, rue Sainte-Louise, à 7301 Hornu. www.cid-grand-hornu.be Du 10 mai au 13 septembre ... «Le Vif, May 15»
4
Jasper Morrison in mostra in Belgio
'Thingness', il titolo della mostra traducibile nell'improbabile 'coseità', rende bene il concetto che lega gli oggetti concepiti dal designer nato a Londra nel 1959. «Living, May 15»
5
Making print modern
... text on screens, Harvard Design Magazine — relaunched in a new format last year ― fervently embraces the thingness of print, the quotidian actuality of paper ... «Harvard Gazette, Mar 15»
6
Gabriel Kuri looks back on 'contractual thingness' in Aspen Art …
The result is a survey of Kuri's artwork from the past decade, titled “with personal thanks to their contractual thingness,” opening today in the museum. It fills two ... «Aspen Times, Dec 14»
7
Performing Publishing: Infrathin Tales from the Printed Web
We simultaneously feel traces of the network — something ephemeral and slippery — while holding the material thingness of its output in our hands. «Hyperallergic, Dec 14»
8
Zurbarán: Master of Spain's Golden Age, Bozar, Brussels
Zurbarán's compulsion to get across the essential thingness of things also led him to make a handful of small works that are among the most striking pure still-life ... «Financial Times, Feb 14»
9
James Turrell Experiments With The 'Thingness Of Light Itself'
This is the year of American artist James Turrell. Three major museums collaborated to give this one man thousands of square feet of exhibition space. Turrell's ... «NPR, Sep 13»
10
Objects Lose Their Objectness in "The Universal Addressability of …
It takes away connotations objects have and shows their utter thingness if that makes sense. In some ways the exhibition disrespects objects in the process. «Complex.com, Jul 13»

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